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The box proved to have in it two cloths, one of flannel, and a white one free from lint; a pair of scissors; a round brush with a wire handle, and a piece of soap. The lamp was taken to pieces, filled with kerosene from the can kept in the cellar-way, and wiped off nicely.
"There's the cellar-way opening from the pantry, and there's a movable slide between dining-room and pantry, right over the sink. Why, Susie, I think this is wonderfully nice. Why don't you adopt this plan?" "The objection to it is that the pantry has no window: it would be as dark as a pocket. Don't you see there can't be a window?" "So there can't," said Gertrude.
Around the corner the sunbeam danced with the wind into Mott Street, lifted the blouse of a Chinaman and made it play tag with his pig-tail. It used him so roughly that he was glad to skip from it down a cellar-way that gave out fumes of opium strong enough to scare even the north wind from its purpose.
When Georgina was no more than six, that disgusted "Tut!" would start her instantly down a dark cellar-way or up into the dreaded garret, even when she could feel the goose-flesh rising all over her.
Instantly both little fellows were at Nat's heels, through the back hall to the cellar-way, where Nat stopped to don his overalls, for he always insisted that the first principle of true mechanics was "good, stout overalls." Nor were the clothes protectors unbecoming to Nat.
"If 't was sixteen to one we'd be all the safer," responded Miranda grimly, putting the doughnuts in a brown crock in the cellar-way and slamming the door. The Perkins horse and wagon rumbled along over the dusty country road, and after a discreet silence, maintained as long as human flesh could endure, Rebecca remarked sedately: "It's a sad errand for such a shiny morning, isn't it, Mr. Perkins?"
The silence above was broken by the creak of an opening door, the sound of excited voices, and a sudden gleam of light, finding entrance through the open cellar-way. West startled, crept back into a corner, every nerve alert at approaching peril. He recognized Hobart's voice, as the fellow plunged down the steps from the first floor out into the yard. "To hell, of course he's here!" he stormed.
I think he noticed and numbered every button on our coats. A friend of mine was walking with him through Cleveland one day, when Garfield stopped and darted down a cellar-way, asking his companion to follow, and briefly pausing to explain himself. The sign, 'Saws and Files, was over the door, and in the depths was heard a regular clicking sound.
She's a Quaker, and she can't lie. Come, Dot Parlin; if you don't like poison, come out and play soldier." "I don't want to play a single thing; so there, now, Johnny Eastman!" "Then you're a cross old party, miss." "I'm not a party at all. I'm only one girl." "O, Dotty!" called Prudy from the cellar-way; "take care! take care!" "So I am taking care," returned Dotty, stoutly.
Still her eye passed unheeding over all the varieties of dinginess and misery in her way, intent only upon finding that particular dingy cellar-way which used to admit her to Dinah's premises. It was found at last, and she went in. The old woman, herself most unchanged, did not know the young lady, but well remembered the little girl whom Fleda brought to her mind.
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